Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


July 12, 2009: Marina Barrage Adventures

It all started innocently enough - a bike ride to explore the walk paralleling the ECP. Try it - and then you figure out the maze of construction-blocked roads. I started from home - down Jalan Bukit Merah - the along Cantonment Road to Keppel Road. Then it got a bit dicey - ending up in a car park with no way out except the way you came in. So I picked up my bicycle and walked a bit, then road a bit, then ended up in some small park near the IR construction. Then into the IR construction - bicycles galore:

jul 12 1323 workers

Not since our time in Madras have I seen so many bicycles - and of course, all ridden by south Indians

jul 12 1325 bike parking

Coming to work

jul 12 1329 coming to work

I finally managed to continue - and ended up not at the ECP but at the Marina Barrage. Here is a view of the ship traffic

jul 12 1353 harbor

And the Singapore skyline

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One of the barriers along the dyke that contains Marina Bay

jul 12 1370 dyke

The Singapore playground - IR (left) and Singapore Flyer (right)

jul 12 1378 singapore playground

The skyline through the M. Barrage site

jul 12 1392 skyline

Walking along the grassy path to the top

jul 12 1399 grass

My battery died - so walked back to my bike for another battery and decided to take in the sculpture before returning to the grassy way to the top. A globe thrower

jul 12 1410 globe thrower

Another view

jul 12 1411 globe thrower

And another view

jul 12 1414 globe thrower

Sort of concentric Circles

jul 12 1416 concentric circles

Better concentric circles

jul 12 1420 concentric circles

Reaching around the world

jul 12 1422 man globe

A quiet fountain

jul 12 1428 fountain without water

Looking back at the dyke

jul 12 1432 marina barrage

The skyline again

jul 12 1448 singapore flyer

And walkway across the bay

jul 12 1451 marina dam

Morning ships

jul 12 1469 ships construction

The walkway across the bay

jul 12 1473 marina dam

The dyke

jul 12 1477 locks

IR construction - post topping up

jul 12 1478 morning picnic

Now the fountains were no longer silent

jul 12 1493 fountains

The sequence here is really fun to watch

jul 12 1504 fountain skyline

These are 1/1000 exposure to see the water drops

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A closer view

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From the other end

jul 12 1553 fountain drops

Next time - more

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C. Frank Starmer

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